This article seeks to challenge the suggestion that whereas the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 was widely remembered and commemorated in the years that followed, the Paris Commune of 1871 was not. The rapid shift from the Franco-Prussian War ending in January 1871 to the rise of the Paris Commune two months later meant that before memories of the former had been established, they had already been shaped by the influence of the latter. In commemorating the Franco-Prussian War, it was therefore impossible to avoid stirring up memories of the fighting against the Commune. Moreover, far from memories of the army’s violent crushing of the Paris Commune having been repressed, this article suggests that their absence was because they had not yet been formed. The example of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune therefore has wider implications for scholars dealing with lacunae in memory or the appearance of forgetting.

本文试图挑战这样一种说法，即 1870 年至 1871 年的普法战争在随后的几年中被广泛记住和纪念，而 1871 年的巴黎公社却没有。从 1871 年 1 月结束的普法战争到两个月后巴黎公社的兴起，这意味着在对前者的记忆建立之前，它们已经受到后者的影响而形成。因此，在纪念普法战争时，不免勾起对公社战斗的回忆。此外，远非军队暴力镇压巴黎公社的记忆被镇压，这篇文章表明他们的缺席是因为他们还没有形成。